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Originally posted by Brunswick Brunswick wrote:

Actually, its just come to me - I think many of us tried the old "cocktails" from our folks booze cabinets!  whisky/vodka/brandy etc., all mixed in the one bottle - ah, desperate times

We used to call that the "Dynamite Cocktail" an inch off every bottle in the folks booze press.  Tasted vile but blew our heads off!!  The only liquor that was barred from the cocktail was Pernod, too overpowering for our strange brew.  Oh but we had the very best of taste!!! 
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We used to call that the "Dynamite Cocktail" an inch off every bottle in the folks booze press.  Tasted vile but blew our heads off!!  The only liquor that was barred from the cocktail was Pernod, too overpowering for our strange brew.  Oh but we had the very best of taste!!! 

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A bit dangerous to try that in my house. My mam always had a bottle of poteen in it (she used it to add flavour to cakes!!)

Blew your head off if you added that.
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A friend of mine drank rum and black. awful stuff could never take to it. Maybe thats why he is now on the dry
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Only equalled by Guinness and blackcurrent.
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ugh just the thought of that..
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Knew a few girls who drank that..

 
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Have to put my hand up to that one drank guinness with blackcurrant when I was pregnant

Used to drink a "cocktail" that had bottle of stag blackcurrant and a shot of vodka I think all served up in pint glass called a Red Witch
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I could never take to Guiness.

Funny tho' I think blackcurrant was invented to take the yucky taste away of some drinks.

Don't know any other use for it.
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I drank my first pint of Guinness down in Galway when I was 40yrs old, and I have to say it was not bad while I was drinking it.....it was afterwards that I felt sick, I was so full up couldn't have another drink after it.....so I really don't know how you lads do it 
Anyway I think I made my dad very proud that day cos he spent all his working life in Guinnesses helping to make the stuff....but I do think it would of tasting better with a dash of blackcurrent in it
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here goes any Cred I may've had! My first drink was a Glass of Guinness with a drop of blackcurrant and I liked it .
It was in a pub in Marlboro St meeting up with a few going to see Horslips in the Stadium!
I drank Guinness for years till giving it up one summer 15 years ago for Cider. I drank Guinness all night at the Halloween reunion though- it's filling all right, but just put on some Zep & Purple, headbang away between pints and you'll have no probs...
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Can't remember my first pint of Guinness - think I must have been reared on the stuff.

My mother in her youth used to drink a bottle of Guinness a day for 'medicinal purposes' after a bout of Rheumatic Fever that was before she discovered Johhny Walker.

Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.

 

 



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Guinness and Harp.

Thats worse than my stag and black.

I think none of us had any taste buds (or sense) back then
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Originally posted by freebird freebird wrote:

Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.

 

 

A Black and Tan is Smythwicks with a Guinness head or vica versa...
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Mmmm......sounds wonderful !!!! 
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Originally posted by irish_mammy irish_mammy wrote:

Guinness and Harp.

Thats worse than my stag and black.

I think none of us had any taste buds (or sense) back then

Hi Lesley, theres also an argument to be made about our sense (or lack of it) these days too.

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Mel,

There certainly is,

No argument from me there.
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Wot about snakebites cider and lager I think ???
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Blondie,

They wouldn't taste too much better either
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Great stuff Lesley would blow your mind
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Originally posted by myploscarfe myploscarfe wrote:

Originally posted by freebird freebird wrote:

Has anyone tried a 'Black and Tan', Think its Guinness and Harp ???mixed.

 

 

A Black and Tan is Smythwicks with a Guinness head or vica versa...



Guinness...with a Smithwicks head...??

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